borntohunt

From the experts at in-home strength training, Bowflex brings you this multi-station tower that has unique and easy-to-use horizontal bars letting you increase the variety of your exercises, raise the intensity of your workouts, and improve the results of your fitness program. You can strengthen arms, legs and core muscles with chin-ups, tricep dips, squats, knee raises and more tried-and-true exercises.

jakerson9

This is great!
Wow, check out the Body Tower! It has a ton of places to hang hangers and pile dirty clothing, and not many places to gather dust at all. I think it will fit sideways into one of my closets. This has to be a huge step up from the Tony Little Gazelle!

zuiquan

Mattack wrote:I would love for someone to explain to me how you do squats with this machine, unless you are just supposed to pick the whole thing up and squat the machine.

Get a smith machine.

If you'd like to wreck your knees that'd be a good idea. Smith machines are known to be bad on your body. Myth No. 5. There are many more articles out there but you don't really need to go much further than Charles Poliquin.

shojobe

zuiquan wrote:If you'd like to wreck your knees that'd be a good idea. Smith machines are known to be bad on your body. Myth No. 5. There are many more articles out there but you don't really need to go much further than Charles Poliquin.

sidvil

zuiquan wrote:If you'd like to wreck your knees that'd be a good idea. Smith machines are known to be bad on your body. Myth No. 5. There are many more articles out there but you don't really need to go much further than Charles Poliquin.

being a professional weight lifter for 10 years. I can stand by what he says. I tell everyone that I work out with to avoid the smith machine. Not only do you loose true squatting weight, you also put excessive stress on one part of the knee. A true squat rack allows you to move and adjust your self reducing the chance of damaging the ligaments in the knee.

jpitt57488

06vmi06 wrote:This is 254 at amazon and walmart so where and how is this 60% off anything? at best it is 23% off those prices... really woot this is a crap deal and false advertisement.

honestly i was going to buy this and the craftsmen today off yall but now i am getting neither.

I think Woot is giving you the % off from the manufacturers retail price. I agree that it is a bit misleading, but I think it is the manufacturer that set an artificially high price. The same retail price is listed on Amazon.

jpitt57488

sidvil wrote:being a professional weight lifter for 10 years. I can stand by what he says. I tell everyone that I work out with to avoid the smith machine. Not only do you loose true squatting weight, you also put excessive stress on one part of the knee. A true squat rack allows you to move and adjust your self reducing the chance of damaging the ligaments in the knee.

All good points here. With this machine they are talking about using it for a single leg "squat". You basically rest one foot on the padded bar. It looks more like a lunge than a true squat. You could accomplish the same thing with a chair .

zuiquan

jpitt57488 wrote:All good points here. With this machine they are talking about using it for a single leg "squat". You basically rest one foot on the padded bar. It looks more like a lunge than a true squat. You could accomplish the same thing with a chair .

Also known as the Bulgarian Split Squat and you can most definitely use a chair, bench, or even an exercise ball to rest your foot on. They're also very difficult without seeming to be very difficult. Do a 3/15 with bodyweight only and see if you're not ridiculously sore for the next day or two. The amount of stabilization you need when doing this exercise is quite astounding.

zuiquan

There was no price on the bowflex site as they referred you to their retail partners I read over te "retail" price on amazon. Sorry you got your pantyhose in a bunch because I made an error.

Wish we could all be as quick, well educated, kind humble and beyond error as you

Thank You jpitt57488 for pointing out my error in a much more respectful way.

I think where you went wrong with your initial post was the amount of huffiness. That's why you experienced some backlash. Next time, maybe make your point but without the aggrieved tone and perhaps you will have people agreeing with you rather than being annoyed with you. Rants and threats don't tend to work well around here. Just my two cents, and that's probably all it's worth anyway.

06vmi06

zuiquan wrote:I think where you went wrong with your initial post was the amount of huffiness. That's why you experienced some backlash. Next time, maybe make your point but without the aggrieved tone and perhaps you will have people agreeing with you rather than being annoyed with you. Rants and threats don't tend to work well around here. Just my two cents, and that's probably all it's worth anyway.

True... just had one of those mornings at work and did not check myself while typing

spcyhknBC

These things are great if you are already in shape. They give you a nice compact area to do all your bodyweight exercises, pushups, pullups, chinups, dips, etc... If you are not in shape though, you might be asking for trouble with this. In my experience, for this to be considered effective and worth it, you need to be able to do 8-12 reps of any one of the exercises. If you can't, stick with your countertops or get a machine that has a platform with weights attached so the machine can do some of the work for you until you can do it yourself.

zuiquan

spcyhknBC wrote:These things are great if you are already in shape. They give you a nice compact area to do all your bodyweight exercises, pushups, pullups, chinups, dips, etc... If you are not in shape though, you might be asking for trouble with this. In my experience, for this to be considered effective and worth it, you need to be able to do 8-12 reps of any one of the exercises. If you can't, stick with your countertops or get a machine that has a platform with weights attached so the machine can do some of the work for you until you can do it yourself.

If you can't do 8-12 pullups (that's probably 95% of Americans) you can use a therapy band to assist you. You can also use a chair and do negatives or jump to the up position to do negatives. There are many different assisting technologies you can use with a system like this. For dips you can use a chair to rest your feet upon or use elastics again. Or just don't do them like me. Thrashed shoulders = an aversion to dips.

spsmyth

There was no price on the bowflex site as they referred you to their retail partners I read over te "retail" price on amazon. Sorry you got your pantyhose in a bunch because I made an error.

Wish we could all be as quick, well educated, kind humble and beyond error as you

Thank You jpitt57488 for pointing out my error in a much more respectful way.

Just to let you know, Sears lists the MSRP at $499.00. They have it at $286.99 today. If you are comparing Woot's price to theirs, that's pretty good.

I have seen some pretty decent blog posts on this. Most of them rave about the build quality of the BodyTower; like a tank. It doesn't bend, creak or wobble like some other home gym equipment that will remain nameless KOF*BODYBYJAKE*KOF!! Most of the time on these things, you're more concerned about falling on your ass, rather than getting it in shape.

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